"Battery baloney" is the title of a posting to www.carbonsense.com that warns of power shortages facing Australia from grids relying on batteries as back-up powwer sources. The post points out that batteries do not generate electricity, they can only store it, and they lose some in the process. "Intermittent energy with batteries or back-up should be used and paid for by those who find them useful. They should not be subsidised or forced on to power grids or reluctant consumers. Society has better things to do with community cash than squandering it on massive green energy toys and battery baloney."